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Land Tenure and Tenure Governance Reform Specialists

Sep 12, 2019 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Organizational Setting The Partnerships Division (PSP) is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the identification, strengthening and stewardship of strategic partnerships with non-state actors in support of…

Is Environmental Peacebuilding the Answer to South Sudan’s Conflict?

Sep 12, 2019 | Marisa O. Ensor

September 12, 2019 marks one year since South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and former Vice President-turned-opposition leader Riek Machar signed a new peace agreement. The…

The Climate-Security Nexus: Interview with Louise Van Schaik

Sep 12, 2019 | Sweta Chakraborty

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the host of the Climate and Security Podcast produced by the Center for Climate and Security, and here she interviews Louise Van Schaik,…

UNCCD Global Mechanism Addresses Gender Equality in LDN Initiatives

Sep 12, 2019 | Leila Mead

6 September 2019: The Global Mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has published a briefing note and manual to advance gender equality…

Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change

Sep 12, 2019

From sinking islands to drought-ridden savannas, women bear an outsize burden of the global—warming crisis, largely because of gender inequalities. In many parts of the…

Kenya: Kenyans Sue UK over Colonials Land Grab

Sep 12, 2019 | Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza, African Exponent

Kenyans are suing Britain for being violently forced off their land which they rightfully owned. In the spirited and earnest attempts to hold the United…

Where Macro Meets Micro: How Climate Change Fuels Violent Extremism

Sep 11, 2019 | Tom Middendorp and Reinier Bergema

Climate change is a “direct and existential threat,” the Council of the European Union concluded in February 2019. In the past half-century, the most vulnerable—particularly…

Let's Get Climate Action Into Traction with Gender Equality

Sep 11, 2019 | Anita Bhatia and Ulrika Modeer

Climate change is already altering the face of our planet. Research shows that we need to put all our efforts over the coming decade to limit…

Securing Better Land Rights for Women Farmers in Kenya and Burkina Faso

Sep 11, 2019 | Douglas Donnellan

In Kenya and Burkina Faso, accessing land for agriculture can be a major challenge for women due to poor governance and gender inequality. According to…

Improving Access to Land for Women in the Arab World: Policy Options and Tools for Triggering Social and Economic Development

Sep 11, 2019 | Everlyne Nairesia, Sina Schlimmer and Ombretta Tempra

It is estimated that in developing countries, women are responsible for the production of 60 to 80 percent of food and yet, they rarely own…

Agenda for First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding Now Available Online – Register NOW While There Is Still Space!

Sep 10, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The working agenda for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding can now be accessed on the conference platform. Please visit https://environmentalpeacebuilding.org/2019-conference/agenda-2/ to view the…

Hotel Reservations for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (Reduced Rates While Availability Lasts)

Sep 10, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuiding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association has reserved a block of 25 guest rooms at Hotel Irvine for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding. The reduced…

Making Their Voices Count: The African Women Protecting Their Land Rights

Sep 10, 2019 | Philippine Sutz

Ashura Juma Mnaula lives in the village of Marumbo in Tanzania. The divorced 38-year-old has three children and, like many women in her community, looks…

To Build Peace, Boost the Women Who Lead the Movements

Sep 10, 2019 | James Rupert

mages of this year’s grassroots movements for social and political change—such as the ouster of authoritarian rulers in Sudan and Algeria—reiterate that women worldwide are…

Why Gender Matters in Climate Adaptation

Sep 10, 2019 | Bernadette Resurreccion

Climate change will not affect people equally. Those living through its most adverse effects will have contributed least to the problem and have fewer resources to adapt…

Myanmar: Ministry Urges Farmers to Save Water

Sep 10, 2019 | Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation has urged farmers to use water more efficiently as there is less water behind the country’s more than 300…

Myanmar: Workers Protest Lack of Fishing Rights in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Region

Sep 10, 2019 | Salai Thant Zin, Irrawaddy

Fishery workers in Kyonepyaw and Lemyethna townships in Irrawaddy Region staged a protest against the regional agriculture minister on Monday in Pathein, the regional capital,…

Myanmar: The Salty Taste of Climate Change

Sep 10, 2019 | Kyaw Nyunt Linn, Myanmar Times

Salt water is seeping into freshwater underground aquifers that are used to irrigate crops and provide communities with water for drinking and washing, but because…

"Blue Peace Index" Assesses, Encourages Sustainable, Collaborative Water Resource Management

Sep 10, 2019 | OOSKAnews

The inaugural Blue Peace Index, an assessment tool to measure the extent to which countries and water basins manage shared water resources in a sustainable and collaborative manner,…

Conflict Minerals: Companies Stall in Tracking Supply Chain for Conflict Minerals

Sep 10, 2019 | Bloomberg Law, Andrea Vittorio

Many companies are having trouble following minerals found in their products, from cell phones to cars, that can fuel conflict in central Africa. An estimated…

Iraq: In Iraq, Water Woes and Corruption Gripes Signal Trouble in Key City

Sep 10, 2019 | Lizzie Porter, New Humanitarian

Last summer, Iraq’s oil-rich southern city of Basra was rocked by violent protests over a number of grievances, including unemployment and the lack of safe…

Myanmar: Into the Forest with Myanmar’s Bamboo-Shoot Harvesters

Sep 10, 2019 | Htet Wai, Irrawaddy

The life of a bamboo harvester is a difficult one. Ko Pho La is a bamboo shoot harvester living in Kyee Bin Village in Irrawaddy…

Paula Hanasz

Director
Slow Water
Australia

Sep 10, 2019

Paula Hanasz is a practitioner and policy maker, focusing on issues of environmental conflict and cooperation, particularly around water. She is a Senior Policy Officer…